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Juan is a Senior Financial Officer in the World Bank Treasury, where he works as an engagement manager for the Reserves Advisory and Management Partnership (RAMP). He is responsible for coordinating and developing capacity building programs and technical assistance for RAMP’s members.​

Prior to joining RAMP, Juan was the Chief Investment Officer of Fogafin, Colombia’s deposit insurance agency, overseeing the investment of all portfolios and reporting directly to the institution’s board of directors. He also worked on resolution strategies, financial crisis simulations, and liability modeling. Additionally, Juan has substantial experience in reserve management. He began his career as a portfolio manager for Colombia’s central bank, where he was later promoted to head of risk management and as the technical advisor to the Deputy Governor supporting the bank’s strategic planning. As head of risk management, he led the development of investment guidelines and risk management initiatives, and he supervised the external management program.​

He holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, as well as a master’s degree in applied economics and a master’s degree in applied statistics, both from the University of Michigan in the United States. Juan also has a PhD in Finance from EDHEC Business School in France. He is a CFA and an FRM charterholder​

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MBA de New York University – Leonard N. Stern School of Business con énfasis en Finanzas y Estrategia. Posee el certificado como analista financiero (Chartered Financial Analyst) otorgado por el CFA Institute y es Economista de la Universidad de los Andes en Colombia, con Maestría en Economía de la misma universidad. Trabajó en el Departamento de Reservas Internacionales del Banco de la República (banco central de Colombia) como Administrador de Portafolios enfocado en mercados internacionales. También trabajó en J.P.Morgan como Especialista de Inversiones para América Latina. Desde 2020 se desempeña como Director Adjunto de Inversiones en el Fondo Latinoamericano de Reservas

MBA from New York University – Leonard N. Stern School of Business with specialization in Finance and Strategy. Mario is a CFA Charterholder and holds a B.Sc. in Economics from Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, with a Master in Economics from the same university. He worked in the International Reserves Department of the Central Bank of Colombia as Portfolio Manager focused on international markets. He also worked at J.P. Morgan as an Investment Specialist for Latin America. Since 2020 he has served as Deputy Investments Director in the Latin American Reserve Fund.​

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ALBERTO NAUDON DELL’ORO es Consejero del Banco Central de Chile desde marzo del 2018.​

Hasta su ingreso al Consejo y desde septiembre del 2014, se desempeñó en el cargo de Gerente de la División de Estudios de esta Institución.​

Es ingeniero comercial de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, donde obtuvo el premio Raúl Iver al mejor egresado de la promoción 2000, y el Magíster y PhD en Economía de la Universidad de California, Los Ángeles, Estados Unidos.​

Ingresó como economista a la División de Estudios del Banco Central en el año 2000. En la misma unidad, fue economista senior y Jefe del Departamento de Modelos y Proyecciones Macroeconómicas.​

En el 2013 asumió el cargo de economista jefe del Banco de Crédito e Inversiones, en el que estuvo durante un año.​

Entre sus actividades académicas ha sido profesor en la Universidad de Chile, la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, la Universidad de Los Andes, y la Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, dictando cursos en las áreas de Macroeconomía, Econometría y Economía Internacional.​

Ha investigado y publicado diversos artículos sobre política monetaria y temas financieros.​

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Experienced policy adviser and Sustainability (ESG) analyst, trained as development economist and expert in the area of the role of investment and business in sustainable development. I am currently responsible for the Sustainability (SRI/ESG) Research Team at BNP Paribas Investment Partners, managing a team of SRI analysts.​​

Es economista por el Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) y tiene un doctorado de la Universidad de Pennsylvania (1988). Ha sido profesor de economía en la Universidad de Texas A&M y en el ITAM, donde fue director del Centro de Estudios para la Competitividad. Su principal área de experiencia se encuentra en el diseño e implementación de políticas y regulaciones microeconómicas en áreas como competencia, finanzas y telecomunicaciones, y, recientemente, finanzas verdes. En el área de competencia participó en la redacción de la primera ley de competencia de México y fue director general de Estudios Económicos de la Comisión Federal de Competencia (1993-1995).​​
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En el área de telecomunicaciones, redactó la ley de telecomunicaciones de 1995 y fue subsecretario de Comunicaciones y Transportes (2006-08) y comisionado de la Comisión Federal de Telecomunicaciones (2008-2011). En el área de finanzas verdes como asesor del gobernador y recientemente como director de Análisis y Políticas de Riesgos Ambientales y Sociales del Banco de México, ha estado dirigiendo sus esfuerzos en crear conciencia de la relevancia de los riesgos climáticos y ambientales para el sistema financiero mexicano y la necesidad de que este cuente con herramientas y metodologías apropiadas. A nivel internacional ha participado activamente en el Grupo de Estudio de Finanzas Verdes del G20 de 2016 a 2018 y en la Red de Bancos Centrales y Supervisores para Enverdecer el Sistema Financiero en la cual dirige el grupo de Dinámica de Mercado.​

Economista de la Universidad Católica del Ecuador y Ph.D. en economía por la Universidad de Boston. Se desempeñó como asesor económico regional de los países andinos y representante del BID en Perú, Panamá y Costa Rica; Economista jefe y vicepresidente de estrategias de desarrollo de CAF; Ministro de economía y finanzas y gerente general del Banco Central del Ecuador; Decano de la Escuela de Negocios de la UDLA Ecuador.

I am a workplace futurist, consultant, and educator on a mission to humanize the workplace. I advise organizations, VC funds and technology innovators on how to create inclusive workplaces through the use of technology, human-centered design, people analytics, and future-thinking. I am an adjunct at NYU School of Professional Studies teaching “Digital Workplace Design” and “Design Thinking for HR”. Previously I transformed the workplace practices at the intersection of technology, analytics, and HR at Fidelity Investments, TIAA, IBM, Price Waterhouse, and PwC Consulting and their clients.​

Marko is a Partner and Chief Strategist at Clocktower Group, an alternative investment asset management firm based in Santa Monica, California. He leads the firm’s Strategy Team, providing bespoke research to clients and partners on geopolitics, macroeconomics, and markets.

Prior to joining the firm, Marko founded BCA Research’s Geopolitical Strategy practice (GPS) in 2012, the financial industry’s first dedicated political analysis investment strategy. The GPS service generated geopolitical alpha by identifying gaps between the market’s political expectations and the firm’s forecasts. Marko was a Senior Vice President and the firm’s Chief Geopolitical Strategist.

Marko began his career as a Senior Analyst at Stratfor, a global intelligence agency where he contributed to the firm’s global geopolitical strategy as well as its analyst recruitment and training program. In his academic work, he helped create the Center for European Union Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Marko holds an MA in Political Science from the University of Texas at Austin and an MA from the University of British Columbia.

He is the author of Geopolitical Alpha: An Investment Framework for Predicting the Future, a book that introduces his constraints-based framework to investors.

Es directora adjunta de estudios económicos del FLAR, donde ha trabajado desde 2010. En esta misma institución se ha desempeñado como analista de investigación financiera y economista senior. Viviana es economista de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, con posgrados en estadística y matemática aplicada de la misma universidad.

También se ha desempeñado como economista internacional en la banca privada colombiana y asesora financiera en políticas públicas.

I am a workplace futurist, consultant, and educator on a mission to humanize the workplace. I advise organizations, VC funds and technology innovators on how to create inclusive workplaces through the use of technology, human-centered design, people analytics, and future-thinking. I am an adjunct at NYU School of Professional Studies teaching “Digital Workplace Design” and “Design Thinking for HR”. Previously I transformed the workplace practices at the intersection of technology, analytics, and HR at Fidelity Investments, TIAA, IBM, Price Waterhouse, and PwC Consulting and their clients.​

James Reynolds, Jr. is Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Loop Capital. Mr. Reynolds founded Loop Capital in 1997 with a simple motto as a guide: “To provide client service beyond expectations.”​

The motto still serves as the foundational driving force of the firm. Mr. Reynolds currently oversees all aspects of Loop Capital, including investment banking, brokerage, project finance, financial advisory services and asset management.​

A 30-year veteran of the financial services industry, Mr. Reynolds held senior-level positions at several global Wall Street firms prior to founding Loop Capital—then a municipal bond firm. Since, Loop Capital has grown into one of the most dynamic and diversified investment banking firms in the country, expanding into corporate finance, global equity trading, taxable fixed income trading, tax-exempt fixed income trading, mergers and acquisitions, public finance, infrastructure investment and financial consulting. As Chairman and CEO, Mr. Reynolds spearheaded the accelerated growth and diversification of the firm, which is now one of the largest privately-held investment banks in the United States. Additionally, Loop Capital is partner in multiple business enterprises including, LoopWealth platform, Asset Management and JLC Infrastructure, an investor and asset management firm formed in 2015 with Magic Johnson Enterprises.​

A passionate advocate of giving back to the community, Mr. Reynolds currently serves as Chairman of Boards for the Chicago Community Trust and Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA).​

Additionally, Mr. Reynolds serves as a Board Member of Kellogg Global Advisory Board, Hope Chicago Executive Leadership Advisory Board, World Business Chicago, Intersect Illinois and the Chicago Urban League, as well as a member of the CFA Institute.​

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As a member of JPMorgan Global Research, Peng Cheng leads the Big Data and AI Strategies research effort based in New York, and is responsible for developing cross asset investment strategies leveraging alternative data and advanced statistical techniques. Previously, he covered Equity Derivatives Strategies in London. Prior to joining the bank in 2010, he was a Convertible and Volatility strategist at Lehman Brothers/Barclays in New York. He holds a Master’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley and is a CFA charterholder.​

Dr. Sameena Shah is a Managing Director in the AI Research organization at J.P. Morgan. She is a highly accomplished technology leader with over 20 years of educational and industry experience in engineering, AI, and leading development teams that created top AI technologies in the world for financial, news, commodities and legal businesses.​

Previously, Sameena was Managing Director, Head of Data Science at S&P Global Ratings where she led the firm’s strategy and development for Augmented Intelligence. Prior to that, Sameena worked at Thomson Reuters for seven years in roles of increasing responsibility that involved building state of the art AI systems that resulted in business growth and operational efficiencies. Sameena is also the Founder and CEO of Aylan Analytics LLC, and has worked at Yahoo! Research, a NYC based hedge fund, an International hedge fund, and a global startup.​

Sameena has a PhD in Distributed Machine Learning and a Masters in Computer Science from IIT Delhi. She is the winner of the top PhD in the country award, Cloudera top AI/ML application award, several best paper awards and recognitions. She has contributed 41 Publications, and 11 Patents​

Entrepreneurial-minded and seasoned executive with successes in raising capital for as well as building, growing, and improving the performance, profitability, and value of business units and companies in international treasury & capital markets, and in renewable energy financing. Expert in finding pragmatic, efficient, and value-adding solutions and then executing them relentlessly. Level-headed under pressure, a strong communicator, and dedicated to delivering promised objectives.​

Charlie has been continuously involved in the international bond markets since the 1980s, responsible for numerous transactions in multiple markets and in the creation of cornerstone new products for the market.​

In a career spanning four decades, Charlie has deep relationships with major issuers around the globe and held leadership positions at Salomon Brothers / Citigroup (co-head of Credit Markets and co-head of Fixed Income Capital Markets) and immediately prior to founding agora served as Chairman of Debt Capital Markets for EMEA & Asia Pacific at Barclays.​

Iseult Conlin is a Managing Director for U.S. Credit at Tradeweb Markets. In her current role, Conlin oversees strategy and implementation for credit products, building new trading protocols by collaborating with market participants to innovate, streamline and advance electronic credit trading.​

Experienced Director of Treasury with a demonstrated history of 30 years working in the banking industry (France, Germany, Luxembourg). Skilled in Risk Management, Banking (Trading Room, Capital Markets), Corporate Finance, Project Finance, and Investment Banking. Strong business development professional graduated from INSEAD, ENA (Ecole Nationale d’Administration – cycle CHEE) and ICN (Institut Commercial de Nancy).​​​​

Miguel Musa Ingeniero Civil Industrial con mención en Matemáticas de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Master of Science in Engineering Management, System Design and Management, MIT. Experiencia en la industria financiera y liderando proyectos tecnológicos, estratégicos y de innovación. Líder del Observatorio Tecnológico y el Techlab del Banco Central de Chile, que son iniciativas que buscan acelerar el entendimiento y adopción de tecnologías disruptivas en el Banco. He realizado trabajos de investigación y de exploración en tecnologías como blockchain y machine learning aplicados a la industria financiera.​​​​

Tamara Ferreira Schmidt is executive director of the Digital Euro Association (DEA). She is specializing in Financial Engineering, Capital Markets and Derivatives with over 15 years of experience. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation granted her the German Chancellor Fellowship to research the impact of alternative financing on the Brazilian and German early-stage entrepreneurial ecosystems. Consultant and creator of personalized content about investments, startups, innovation, digital currencies and blockchain, Tamara has already lectured at Brazil-Germany Fintech eTour, TEDx KanzlerPark, Web 3.0 Disruptors Week, among other events.​​​

Pramit Pal Chaudhuri was a Senior Advisor at Rhodium Group and led the firm’s India research.​

Pramit is also the foreign editor of the Hindustan Times, the primary newspaper of the Indian capital New Delhi, and fellow and head of strategic affairs of the Ananta Aspen Centre of India. He served two terms from 2011 to 2015 on the Indian government’s National Security Advisory Board, a body that provides policy inputs to the Indian Prime Minister’s Office in security and economic fields.​

He serves as a delegate for a number of track-two strategic and economic dialogues on behalf of India’s largest chamber of commerce, the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), and the affiliated Ananta Aspen Centre. These include the CII-Aspen Strategy Group India-US strategic dialogue, the CII’s trilateral India-US-Japan dialogue, and similar dialogues with China, Israel, Turkey and South Korea. These dialogues serve as path-breakers for India’s relationships with major countries of the world in all spheres of policy.​

Pramit’s affiliations outside of India include being a member of the New York-based Asia Society’s Global Council, the Aspen Institute of Italy, the Institute of International Strategic Studies in London and the Mont Pelerin Society.​

In 2007-08 he was the Bernard Schwarz Fellow at the Asia Society in New York and a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow at the University of Maryland College Park in 1994-95. Pramit has also been a media fellow at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, South Asia Fellow at the Henry Stimson Centre and Visiting Fellow at his alma mater Cornell University.​​

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Sir Adam Thomson KCMG has been the Director of the European Leadership Network since November 2016.​

Before joining the ELN Sir Adam had a 38 year diplomatic career in the British Diplomatic Service, preceded by short spells at the World Bank and at Harvard. His final diplomatic posting was as the UK Permanent Representative to NATO between 2014 and 2016. Prior to that, from 2010 Sir Adam served as British High Commissioner to Pakistan and between 2002 and 2006 he was British Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York.​

Earlier postings included Moscow, NATO, Washington DC and New Delhi. Sir Adam has also worked in London on Israel/Lebanon, in the Cabinet Office as the Soviet analyst for the UK’s Joint Intelligence Committee (1989 – 91), as the Head of the FCO’s Security Policy Department and as FCO Director for South Asia and Afghanistan.​

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Evans J.R. Revere is senior advisor with the Albright Stonebridge Group. From 2007-2010, Revere served as president and CEO of The Korea Society.​

Fluent in Chinese, Korean and Japanese, Revere retired from the Foreign Service in 2007 after a distinguished career as one of the U.S. Department of State’s top Asia experts. He won numerous awards during his career, which included service as the principal deputy assistant secretary and acting assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and deputy chief of mission and charge d’affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Seoul. Revere has extensive experience in negotiations with North Korea.​

Revere graduated with honors from Princeton University with a degree in East Asian Studies. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.​

Arnab Das is Global Market Strategist in the EMEA region, based in London, and a member of Invesco’s Global Thought Leadership team. He helps develop and communicate analysis and insight on the global economy and financial markets across asset classes for clients, media, governments and central banks. He works with Invesco’s investment teams across disciplines and regions and is a member of Invesco’s Global Investor Forum Advisory Council with a focus on global macro and emerging markets. Arnab’s research interests span economic policy, performance and reform; and economic and financial history.​

Arnab joined Invesco in 2015 as Head of EM macro research for Invesco Fixed Income. He began his career in finance in 1992, and has served as Co-head of Economic Research & Strategy at Roubini Global Economics; Co-head of Global Economics & Strategy, Head of Global FX Research, and Head of EM Economics & Strategy at Dresdner Kleinwort; and Head of EEMEA Research at JP Morgan. He has also been a private consultant in global and emerging markets, as well as consulting with Trusted Sources, a specialist EM research boutique.​

Arnab’s studies were in macroeconomics, economic history and international political economy. He received an AB from Princeton University in 1986 and completed his postgraduate and doctoral work at the London School of Economics in 1987-1992.​

Director financiero desde 2007. Ingresa al FLAR en 2005 como director de investigación financiera. Previamente se desempeñó en el Banco Central de Venezuela, ocupando cargos desde gerente de portafolio hasta jefe adjunto del departamento de inversiones internacionales. MBA con especialización en ingeniería financiera del MIT, y licenciado en administración de empresas de Barton College.

Durante 12 años fue gerente general del Banco de la República (Banco central de Colombia), después de haber ocupado los cargos de gerente técnico y subgerente de investigaciones económicas de la misma entidad. Ha sido catedrático de economía en las universidades de los Andes y Javeriana, en Bogotá, Colombia.

Marcelo Martinelli is a senior advisor at the Foreign Reserves Department at the Central Bank of Brazil. He joined the Central Bank in 2003 and has been working in reserve management in various functions in the front and middle offices ever since. He holds a degree in economics from the University of Sao Paulo (1994).​

Marco is an engagement manager for the Reserve Advisory & Management Parternship (RAMP), within the World Bank Treasury, where he coordinates the delivery of technical assistance to official institutions that want to improve their asset management practices.​

Prior to joining the World Bank in 2018, he worked for the Central Bank of Colombia for almost two decades, managing the country’s foreign reserves and sovereign wealth funds. He started his career as a portfolio manager, was promoted to Head of Portfolio Management, and later became Director of International Investment. In this last position, he received the Reserve Manager of the Year award from Central Banking Publications in 2014.​

He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Universidad de los Andes in Bogota and a Master of Business Administration from New York University, and is a CFA charterholder.​

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Jan is head of the Global Investment Research Division and the firm’s chief economist. He is a member of the Management Committee and the Client and Business Standards Committee. Prior to assuming his current role, Jan was head of Global Economics and Markets Research. He joined Goldman Sachs in the Frankfurt office in 1997 and transferred to New York in 1999.
He was named managing director in 2004 and partner in 2008. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Jan was a research officer at the London School of Economics.  Jan is the No. 1 ranked global economist in the annual Institutional Investor Global Fixed-Income Research Team, a position he has held in the global or US category for the past decade.
He is a member of the economic advisory panels of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the Congressional Budget Office. Jan earned a DPhil in Economics from Oxford University, as well as degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.